Young migrants inside the train station debating on trying to catch the last evening train to France. In the evening, most migrants are stopped by the police once on the train tracks or inside the train, Ventimiglia, Italy.

Cédric Herrou & 13 migrants, among them 4 minors standing across the gendarmerie (local police station) of Breil-sur-Roya, France. Up to July 2017, Cedric has hosted around 400 migrants per week and registered about 1000 migrants while sending out three times more asylum applications than in the whole of the Alpes-Maritimes department in 2016. By law it is a right to apply for a asylum status once on French ground.

Cédric Herrou & 13 migrants, among them 4 minors standing across the gendarmerie (local police station) of Breil-sur-Roya, France. By law, asylum seekers are required to present themselves at the gendarmerie (local police station) who is responsible to direct them towards the department´s prefecture, in this case Nice City to apply for asylum. First, a right to transit to go there by the local police station. Once the asylum request has been registered at an official platform, all migrants have the right to transit through France legally and eventually settle where they choose to.